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Paul Lilly
Apr 23, 2014

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What could be Nvidia's second generation Shield console makes a benchmark run on AnTuTu

It's been a little less than nine months since Nvidia released its
Shield handheld game console
to the public, and while there have been software updates since then, there's already talk of a second generation model with improved hardware. While this hasn't been confirmed as the real deal, news of a
Shield 2 making a benchmarking run at AnTuTu
is making the rounds. Care to venture a guess about its hardware?

According to the
benchmark stats
, which was first noticed by
gforgames.com
, the supposed Shield 2 wields an Nvidia Tegra K1 quad-core processor clocked at 2.5GHz with a Kepler GPU comprised of 192 CUDA cores. The System-on-Chip (SOC) is flanked by 4GB of RAM and 16GB of onboard storage.

The screen resolution is listed at 1440x810, which could indicate that 90 pixels in height are taken up by the on-screen navigation bar. Rounding out the spec sheet is a 0.3MP front-facing camera and Android 4.4.2 KitKat. The device scored 44,500 points in the AnTuTu benchmark.

A typo in the spec sheet on AnTuTu gets our BS meter tingling, so take this one with a dash of salt.

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